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04.04.2024 | Fintech funding slows to the lowest level since 2017 | When it comes to funding, the fintech sector didn’t have a very good start to the year.
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21.03.2024 | VCs double down on fintech Coast, which aims to be the Brex ... | The expense management arena is a crowded one, with well-funded players such as Brex, Ramp and Navan... | techcrunch... |
11.03.2024 | Micron Appoints Robert Swan to its Board of Directors | BOISE, Idaho, March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), an industry l... | einpresswi... |
31.01.2024 | Flexport has laid off 15% of its workers | Premium Tech Flexport has laid off 15% of its workers
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23.01.2024 | Flexport secures $260 million in funding from Shopify follow... | Flexport, the struggling logistics startup that faced challenges and had to implement job cuts last ... | techstartu... |
01.11.2023 | Flexport buys Convoy’s tech; Convoy CEO Dan Lewis, other emp... | (Flexport Photo)
Freight company Flexport has acquired technology and a few dozen employees from Con... | geekwire.c... |
27.10.2023 | Flexport reportedly working on deal to acquire Convoy’s truc... | (GeekWire File Photo)
More details are emerging about where Convoy’s assets may end up.
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25.10.2023 | Investors Have Stopped Feeding The Supply Chain | 19 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
For a number of years, one of startup investors’ favorite ... | news.crunc... |
16.10.2023 | Flexport kicks off restructuring with layoffs | Flexport founder Ryan Petersen said in September — in the wake of his hand-picked CEO’s sudden depar... | techcrunch... |
13.10.2023 | Flexport is laying off 20% of its workforce one month after ... | Logistics startup Flexport is planning to cut about 20% of its global workforce in a new round of la... | techstartu... |
13.10.2023 | Flexport will lay off 20% of the company starting Friday, le... | Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen. Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images This story is avail... | businessin... |
13.09.2023 | Flexport Launches a Revolution to Democratize Supply Chain f... | Introducing the first-ever self-service, end-to-end, AI-enabled supply chain solution, powering entr... | en.prnasia... |
13.09.2023 | Flexport Launches a Self-Service, AI-Driven Global Trade Sol... | SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexport today launched a supply chain revolution... | en.prnasia... |
07.09.2023 | Крупнейшие зарубежные стартапы грузоперевозок... | За последние годы мировой рынок логистики пережил много потрясений: covid в 2020 году, последовавший... | habr.com/r... |
05.05.2023 | Flexport Acquires Shopify Logistics | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a tech-driven logistics platform, acquired assets of... | finsmes.co... |
04.05.2023 | Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics business... | Shopify revealed today that it’s laying off 20% of its workforce, impacting more than 2,000 people, ... | techcrunch... |
26.12.2022 | A VIP Boeing 747 Jumbo jet that spent just 42 hours in the a... | The Boeing 747-8 had stood idle in Switzerland for a decade. dreamcatcher-68/Flickr
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22.12.2022 | Holiday shipping is easier this year, but the tech is still ... | Ryan Petersen Contributor
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10.11.2022 | Куда гоу: Insider составил список из 25 стартапов, оплачиваю... | Не смотря на массовые увольнения в IT-компаниях, от которых ещё несколько месяцев назад никто ничего... | habr.com/r... |
30.08.2022 | Dublin-based Protex AI nabs €18.1 million to use AI hacks to... | Dublin-based startup preventing workplace accidents before they happen, Protex AI has raised $18 mil... | tech.eu/20... |
29.08.2022 | Shopify invested in 9 startups betting on marketing, Web3, a... | Shopify is funding startups that further its mission of empowering small businesses. Brandon Bell/Ge... | businessin... |
07.02.2022 | Frontier and Spirit Airlines to take on the pandemic-induced... | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
07.02.2022 | Flexport raises $935M at $8B+ valuation for logistics manage... | Logistics startup Flexport Inc. today announced that it has closed a $935 million late-stage investm... | siliconang... |
07.02.2022 | Flexport raises nearly $1 billion in funding led by Andreess... | Just a year after raising funding from a secondary market, Flexport announced on Monday it has raise... | techstartu... |
07.02.2022 | Flexport Raises $935M in Series E Funding; Post Valued at Ov... | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based platform for global logistics, raised $935m in Series E funding.... | finsmes.co... |
07.02.2022 | Investing in Flexport | Until 18 months ago, few of us thought much about the global supply chain. The couch we purchased sh... | a16z.com/2... |
10.12.2021 | Nuport Receives Funding From US-based Freight Forwarder Flex... | Nuport announced that it has received an investment of USD$125,000 from ODX Flexport, an incubator p... | futurestar... |
20.10.2021 | Prosimo claims to offer industry’s first autonomous multiclo... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
20.10.2021 | Prosimo claims to offer industry’s first autonomous multiclo... | With more organizations embracing the cloud for operations, simplifying multicloud networking is key... | venturebea... |
04.08.2021 | Diving into the Digitalization of Maritime Logistics | The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly posed significant challenges for supply chains globally. Multi... | munichvp.c... |
24.06.2021 | Egypt’s Trella closes $42-million funding round | Cairo-based Trella, the fastest growing digital freight marketplace in MENAP, announced the successf... | venturebur... |
24.06.2021 | Egypt’s Trella closes $42-million funding round | Cairo-based Trella, the fastest growing digital freight marketplace in MENAP, announced the successf... | venturebur... |
26.04.2021 | Brex: The Future of Business Finance and Cash Management | When Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi joined the YC W17 batch with an idea for a VR startup, t... | ycombinato... |
26.04.2021 | Brex: The Future of Business Banking and Cash Management | When Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi joined the YC W17 batch with an idea for a VR startup, t... | blog.ycomb... |
14.02.2021 | Peloton’s Recent Moves Foreshadow Big Increases In Global Su... | Peloton Interactive Inc. is responding to long waits for its products by spending a lot more on ... ... | forbes.com... |
28.07.2020 | Berlin’s cargo.one raises US$ 18.6M Series A funding | The startup offers a digital platform for freight agents to search, compare and book air freight cap... | vcbay.news... |
01.06.2020 | Digital Freight Forwarder Beacon Raises Over $15 Million Fro... | Beacon, a London-based next-generation freight forwarding and supply chain finance company, announce... | pulse2.com... |
26.04.2020 | How freight master Flexport’s Ryan Petersen learned to CEO | “I didn’t know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the business.” Con... | techcrunch... |
04.02.2020 | Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace f... | Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the U.S., accounting for arou... | techcrunch... |
04.02.2020 | Layoffs hit Flexport, another SoftBank-backed startup worth ... | Fearing weak fundraising options in the wake of the WeWork implosion, late-stage startups are tighte... | techcrunch... |
31.01.2020 | SoftBank-backed startups are bleeding, as investors tighten ... | Masayoshi Son, CEO Softbank (left) and Adam Neumann, former CEO of WeWork (right). Alessandro Di Cio... | businessin... |
23.01.2020 | Top Tech Trends To Watch In 2020 | Every year, a handful of themes drive deal making. This year’s innovations are in the logistics, con... | forbes.com... |
18.10.2019 | Bloomberg Beta, now six years old, closes its third $75 mill... | Bloomberg Beta, a San Francisco-based outfit that uses Bloomberg LP’s money to make bets on startups... | techcrunch... |
13.10.2019 | Flexport Buys Crux Systems | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based modern freight forwarder, acquired Crux Systems, an advanced tec... | finsmes.co... |
25.09.2019 | Why Flexport built a slick Slack SaaS for shipping | “Make their metrics your metrics” is one of Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen’s mantras. Sometimes that mea... | techcrunch... |
08.09.2019 | The agile supply chain: 5 ways to disaster-proof your busine... | Between the looming threat of Brexit and President Trump’s unpredictable tariff moves, businesses ha... | venturebea... |
08.09.2019 | The agile supply chain: 5 ways to disaster-proof your busine... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
08.05.2019 | Fuel Capital, co-led by TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque, just... | Roughly two years ago, as the gig-economy company TaskRabbit was nearing its eventual sale to Ikea, ... | techcrunch... |
25.04.2019 | Amazon Prime’s dominance is spurring new startup opportuniti... | John (Jiang) Lin Contributor
John Lin is an associate partner at Trinity Ventures supporting investm... | techcrunch... |
25.02.2019 | Flexport Raises $1 Billion in Funding | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based freight company, raised $1 billion in funding.
The round was led... | finsmes.co... |
22.02.2019 | SoftBank Vision Fund Leads Billion-Dollar Bet On Freight Fir... | 72 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The supergiant round trend continues.
Flexport, a freight ... | news.crunc... |
22.02.2019 | Freight startup Flexport just nabbed $1 billion through a So... | Flexport. Courtesy of Flexport
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21.02.2019 | Daily funding roundup - February 21st, 2019 | SensorFlow raised a $2.7M; Zoba raised $3M; Back to the Roots raised $3M: WaitWhat raised $4.3
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21.02.2019 | Flexport raises $1 billion in funding led by SoftBank to acc... | Just a day after investing $200 million in physical storage startup Clutter, SoftBank Vision Fund, a... | techstartu... |
21.02.2019 | Logistics startup Flexport just raised a SoftBank-led round ... | Flexport, a 5.5-year-old, San Francisco-based full-service air and ocean freight forwarder, says it ... | techcrunch... |
21.02.2019 | Top startup news for today, Thursday, February 21, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, February... | techstartu... |
28.09.2018 | YC Has Changed | As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning... | blog.ycomb... |
08.09.2018 | Silicon Valley isn’t over, but its influence is dwindling | By now you’ve likely seen this week’s The Economist cover story titled “Peak Valley,” which features... | venturebea... |
08.09.2018 | Silicon Valley isn’t over, but its influence is dwindling | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
06.09.2018 | Axoni Named to LinkedIn Top 50 Startups in US | Financial transformation: Axoni — described as one of the most “prominent startups in enterprise blo... | fintech.io... |
30.08.2018 | Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forward... | Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport.
Flexport is a global freight forwarder powered by... | blog.ycomb... |
30.08.2018 | Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forward... | Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport.
Flexport is a global freight forwarder powered by... | ycombinato... |
15.06.2018 | US Scallop Association advocates for competitive tariff rate... | When members of the American Scallop Association went to Washington last week to take in in the annu... | seafoodsou... |
06.06.2018 | Founders Fund Partner Talks Privacy, Facebook, and His Time ... | Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens found his way to venture capital from the public sector.
After g... | fortune.co... |
30.04.2018 | China’s SF Express invests $100m in US freight forwarder Fle... | Premium
Chinese express delivery firm SF Express has invested $100 million in US-headquartered Flexp... | dealstreet... |
30.04.2018 | Flexport Secures $100M in Funding | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based technology platform for global trade, secured $100M in funding.
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30.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, April 30 | WOOING REGULATORS
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27.04.2018 | Unicorn startup Flexport raises $100 million in funding from... | Full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform startup, Flexport, announced today it h... | techstartu... |
23.02.2018 | Jeremy Fiance, the 26-year-old founder of House Fund, ups hi... | A little less than two years ago, we reported on Jeremy Fiance, a then 24-year-old recent UC Berkele... | techcrunch... |
28.01.2018 | Trucking logistics company NEXT Trucking takes in a $21 mill... | As e-commerce and on-demand services capture increasingly larger shares of consumer spending, the me... | techcrunch... |
19.01.2018 | Going Global with Your Startup | Kwindla Hultman Kramer is the founder of Daily.co (W16).
When we started Daily.co, we thought we we... | ycombinato... |
06.10.2017 | Flexport’s epic plan to build a freight empire with its $110... | “We’re actually out here trying to create value, not just give venture capital money away” says Flex... | techcrunch... |
22.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, September 22 | WHITMAN FOR PRESIDENT?
Happy New Year to those celebrating, or just happy Friday. It’s Jen Wieczner ... | fortune.co... |
21.09.2017 | Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuat... | Flexport handles the boring logistics of a trillion-dollar business: the transport of shipping conta... | techcrunch... |
13.09.2017 | How the new iPhone could drive up the shipping cost of every... | Every September, the price of air freight spikes dramatically. And what else happens every September... | venturebea... |
13.09.2017 | How the new iPhone could drive up the shipping cost of every... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
28.03.2017 | Logistics startup Turvo zooms out of stealth with $25 millio... | Turvo, a two-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based company, is emerging today with an idea so ambitious tha... | techcrunch... |
16.03.2017 | Steering into shipping’s economic headwinds, Shipamax pitche... | Maritime shipping, the engine of global economic growth for much of the twentieth century, has stall... | techcrunch... |
20.02.2017 | 2017 YC Annual Letter | Dear YC Community:
In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual lett... | blog.ycomb... |
15.02.2017 | L.A. gets more capital as Fika Ventures raises $40 million d... | Investors are seemingly growing more excited about L.A. by the day. The newest sign comes via a $40 ... | techcrunch... |
01.01.2017 | 4 ways Industry 4.0 will look different in 2017 | It’s been a big year for Industrial IoT — or Industry 4.0 — as both long-term established companies ... | readwrite.... |
28.09.2016 | Flexport Raises $65M Series B from First Round Capital | Global trade platform Flexport has raised $65 million in Series B funding, according to a blog post.... | citybizlis... |
26.09.2016 | Flexport Raises $65M in Funding | Flexport, a San Francisco, CA-based online freight forwarder, raised $65M in Series B funding.
Backe... | finsmes.co... |
26.09.2016 | Unsexy Flexport scores $65 million as software eats shipping | Freight forwarding is a multi-trillion industry, but most people don’t even know what those words me... | techcrunch... |
26.08.2016 | Meet Chad Byers, General Partner at Susa Ventures | Susa just secured a $50 million second fund, so we chatted with a founder about the rising seed firm... | vator.tv/n... |
16.08.2016 | Susa Ventures raises $50 million in second fund | A young seed-stage firm in San Francisco secures more capital for bigger, better deals
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28.06.2016 | Flexport CEO expresses some remorse in taking cash from Pete... | Remember when we found out billionaire investor Peter Thiel is in support of presumptive Republican ... | techcrunch... |
07.06.2016 | The unsexiest trillion-dollar startup | Steve Jobs went ballistic when public shipping manifests leaked the existence of the iPhone 3G. That... | techcrunch... |
25.04.2016 | The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate m... | Ryan Petersen Contributor
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15.04.2016 | Building a Fast-Growing Startup in a Slow-Moving Industry | It’s one of the largest and oldest industries in the world, with an annual value of an estimated $9 ... | blog.ycomb... |
12.04.2016 | Logistics marketplace Fleet receives $4 million in seed fund... | Fleet, a marketplace that lets companies compare quotes from logistics providers, has landed a $4 mi... | techcrunch... |
08.03.2016 | Flexport takes on freight world | Technology is disrupting traditional industries from printing to manufacturing – and now you can add... | readwrite.... |
13.02.2016 | How DHL Pioneered The Sharing Economy | Ryan Petersen Contributor
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15.01.2016 | Amazon China Can Now Manage Ocean Shipments For Other Compan... | Cargo ships might not be as intriguing as drones, but they represent a potentially lucrative new bus... | techcrunch... |
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09.07.2015 | Fleet, Formerly Called Shipstr, Launches “Yelp For Internati... | It is Fleet’s Week. The startup, a Disrupt 2014 San Francisco Battlefield finalist, is launching a n... | techcrunch... |
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